Shade-bracket



UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE.

WILFRID MARTEL, 0F THETFORD MINES WEST, QUEBEC, CANADA; GAUDIASE MARTEL ATTORNEY FOR THE HEIRS 0F SAID WILFRID MARTEL, DECEASED.

SHADE-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

Application led April 3, 1920. Serial No. 370,944.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILFRID MARTEL, a British subject, residing at Thetford Mines West, in the Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade-Brackets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in a shade bracket and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character that can be easily adjusted and secured to practically any size of window frame, without the use of screws or nails.

Another object of the invention is to provide besides an extensible shade bracket, a device that may be rapidly removed.

Another object of the invention is to devise a shade bracket cheap of manufacture and particularly easy to fit on a window frame.

The invention will be better understood with the aid of the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window frame, on which is mounted the blind support.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of one of the supports.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each igure.

In the drawings 1 represents the upper portion of the window frame supporting an attachment 2 which consists of two outwardly projecting brackets 3 and 4 having the outwardly bent anges 5 which are adapted to rest on the face of the frame 1, the said brackets being preferably disposed on each side of the Jframe. The bracket 3 has a hole 6 for receiving one end of the shade roll 6*L (shown in dotted line) and the other end of the roll ts into a slot 7 provided in the bracket 4. The brackets 3 and 4 are rigidly held together by two rods 8 and 9 which pass behind the blind roll, and 10' and 11 are horizontal rods, disposed intermediate of said bracing rods 8 and 9 and in alinement in relation to one another, and project through said brackets 3 and 4 respectively. The said rods 10 and 1l are connected together by a preferably spiral spring 12 at their inner ends and loosely secured at their outer ends are the gripping plates 13 and 14 which are bent so as to engage the side of the frame 1 and are provided with prongs 15.

It will readily be understood that the gripping plates are adjustable to practically any size of window, by means of the spring held rods 10 and 11, while the supporting lugs are rigid and fitted to the size of the blind roll 6a.

What I claim as my invention is:

A shade bracket comprising two shade roll supporting brackets, each of which is provided with a flange portion adapted to rest against a window frame, said brackets being respectively provided with a hole and a slot in which are secured the ends of the shade roll; rods rigidly securing said brackets together; two movable rods slidable in said brackets respectively, each provided at its outer -end with a movable gripping plate, consisting of a main plate, bearing prongs and having an inwardly bent lug to which is movably secured the outer end of the respective rod and a tension spring connecting the inner ends of said movable rods, substantially as described. Y

Sidgned at Thetford Mines, this second day of ay 1918.

WILFRID MARTEL.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH LnssARD, FRANCIS BLANOHARD. 

